DAVID ALEXANDER CRAIG

davidalexandercraig@gmail.com +1 (720) 219-4011

1295 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403
Updated May 2016
EDUCATION
Ph.D.

Philosophy, University of Oregon, October 2016 (expected)

Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Nature
Chair: Ted Toadvine
Committee: Roco Zambrana, Nicolae Morar, Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt)

M.A.

Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, 2009

B.A.

Philosophy, University of Colorado, Denver, 2006

ADDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Johns Hopkins University, Visiting Graduate Student in Philosophy, 20142015
University of Colorado, Denver, Lecturer in Philosophy (Online), 2010Present
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION & COMPETENCY
Specialization
Kant, Environmental Philosophy, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy
Competency
Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Rationality, Animality, and Human Nature: Reconsidering Kants View of the Human/Animal
Relation. Konturen 7 (2014): 6276.
Ecological Political Theory and Ontological Connection: A Reply to Ploofs Realizing
Humanity through Animality. American Dialectic 4.2 (2014): 147149.
From Philosophy of Race to Antiracist Politics: On Rortys Approach to Race and Racism.
Philosophy in the Contemporary World 21.2 (2014): 5260.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Animality in Kants Theory of Human Nature. In Kant and Animals. Edited by Lucy Allais
and John J. Callanan. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
Physical Education in Kants Lectures on Pedagogy, Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII.
Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Edited by Violetta L. Waibel and Margit
Ruffing. Walter de Gruyter. Forthcoming.

Book Review
Brian Massumi, What Animals Teach Us About Politics. Contemporary Political Theory 14.4
(2015): e25e27.
Translation
Jane Kneller, Spiegel und Magie: Die Natur des Selbst in Novalis Fichte-Studien und der
Allgemeinen Brouillon. In Einbildungskraft und Reflexion. Neuere philosophische
Untersuchungen zur Novalis. Edited by Augustin Dumont and Alexander Schnell.
LIT Verlag. Translation into German with Anna Baumeister. Forthcoming.
AWARDS & HONORS
2016

Best Graduate Student Paper, North American Kant Society, Southern Study Group
For Kant on Animality, Race, and Sexual Difference

20152016

Charles A. Reed Graduate Fellowship, University of Oregon ($2700)

20142015

Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Oregon ($21,000)

University-wide award with 1-2 annual recipients, providing stipend and
release from teaching, in recognition of research promise and excellence

2014

Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics Student Bursary Award, University of Oxford
For travel to 2014 Uehiro Lectures (with Christine Korsgaard)

2014

Best Graduate Student Paper, philoSOPHIA, Pennsylvania State University

For Irigaray and Beauvoir on the Animalization of Woman

20132014

U.S. Fulbright Research Scholarship (Declined)

Invited by Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitt, Frankfurt, Germany

2013

Master Class in Critical Theory (Fully Funded Participant), Universitt Luzern

Crisis, Critique, Capitalism, with Nancy Fraser

2013

Translation Studies Working Group Research Award, University of Oregon

For archival visits toward translation of Schillers medical dissertations

2013

Best Graduate Student Paper, Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
For From Philosophy of Race to Antiracist Politics

2012

Smith Summer Professional Development Award, University of Oregon ($3000)

2011

Paideia Prize for Excellent Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon

PRESENTATIONS
The Constancy of Human Animality in Kants Moscati Review, North American Kant Society,
Third Biennial Meeting, Athens, Georgia, May 28th, 2016
What Exactly is Wrong with the Extinction of Species? UO Human/Animal Research Interest
Group, University of Oregon, May 10th, 2016
Human Animality in the History of Philosophy, Critical Animal Studies Symposium, Humboldt
State University, April 29th, 2016
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Kant on Animality, Race, and Sexual Difference, North American Kant Society, Southern
Study Group, Athens, Georgia, February 20th, 2016 (Winner of Award for Best
Graduate Student Paper)
Physical Education in Kants Lectures on Pedagogy, Natur und Freiheit: XII. Internationaler
Kant Kongress, Vienna, Austria, September 24th, 2015
The Role of Animality in Kants Accounts of Human Racial and Sexual Difference,
philoSOPHIA: A Feminist Society, Atlanta, GA, May 15th, 2015
Kants AnimalRational Axis, Tracking the Animal, Trinity College, April 18th, 2015 (Invited)
Violence, Animality, and the Moral Law, Roundtable with Christoph Menke, Johns Hopkins
University, March 23rd, 2015 (Invited)
Philosophy of History at the Birth of the Anthropocene: Kant and the Environmental Critique of
Enlightenment, International Association for Environmental Philosophy (at
Eastern APA), Philadelphia, PA, December 30th, 2014 (with Anna Baumeister)
The Androcentric Dimension of the Anthropocene, International Association for
Environmental Philosophy, New Orleans, LA, October 27th, 2014
Animality and Normativity in Kants Theory of Human Nature, Society for Phenomenology
and Existential Philosophy, New Orleans, LA, October 24th, 2014
Irigaray and Beauvoir on the Animalization of Woman, philoSOPHIA, State College, PA, May
3rd, 2014 (Winner of Award for Best Graduate Student Paper)
The Animal Beginning of Human History: Derridas Final Engagement with Kant,
Comparative & Continental Phil. Circle, Santa Barbara, CA, March 21st, 2014
From Philosophy of Race to Antiracist Politics: On Rortys Approach to Race and Racism,
Society for the Advancement of American Phil., Denver, CO, March 7th, 2014
Schillers Challenge to the Superiority of Humans over Non-Human Animals, International
Association for Environmental Philosophy, Eugene, OR, October 27th, 2013
Animality and Normativity in Kants Theory of Human Nature, 2013 Lucerne Master Class in
Critical Theory: Crisis, Critique, Capitalism (with Nancy Fraser), Universitt
Luzern, Switzerland, October 15th, 2013
From Philosophy of Race to Antiracist Politics: On Rortys Approach to Race and Racism,
Society for Phil. in the Contemporary World, Estes Park, CO, July 22nd, 2013
(Winner of Award for Best Graduate Student Paper)
The Dialectic of Rationality and Animality in Kants Theory of Human Nature, Defining the
Human and the Animal, Eugene, OR, May 2nd, 2013 (Invited)
Aristotles Politics of the Hunt, Ancient Philosophy Society, South Bend, IN, April 6th, 2013
Sacrificing the Animal, Ingesting the Father: a Derridian Animalization of the Freudian Primal
Parracide, International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Rochester,
NY, November 4th, 2012
TEACHING
As Instructor of Record at University of Oregon
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Philosophy and Popular Culture, PHIL 130, Summer 2016

Logic, Inquiry, and Argumentation, PHIL 325, Spring 2016
Animals and Philosophy, PHIL 399, Winter 2016
Environmental Philosophy, PHIL 340, Summer 2014, Fall 2015
Ethics of Enterprise and Exchange, PHIL 120, Spring 2014
Critical Reasoning, PHIL 103, Summer 2013
Human Nature, PHIL 110, Spring 2013
Existentialism, PHIL 211, Fall 2012
As Instructor of Record at University of Colorado, Denver
Introduction to Ethical Reasoning, PHIL 1020, Fall 2010Spring 2016 (Online)
Introduction to Philosophy, PHIL 1012, Spring 2010
As Teachers Assistant at University of Oregon
Critical Reasoning, PHIL 103, Daniela Vallega-Neu, Winter 2013
Logic, Inquiry, and Argumentation, PHIL 325, Roco Zambrana, Spring 2012
Internet, Society, Philosophy, PHIL 123, Colin Koopman, Winter 2012
Ancient Philosophy, PHIL 310, Adam Arola, Fall 2011
Existentialism, PHIL 211, Peter Warnek, Spring 2011
Human Nature, PHIL 110, Alejandro Vallega, Winter 2011
Philosophical Problems, PHIL 101, Mark Johnson, Fall 2010
Additional Training
Course in Feminist Pedagogy, University of Oregon, Spring 2012
CU Online Instructional Seminar, University of Colorado, Denver, Fall 2010
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Referee for Environmental Philosophy (2015) and Ethics, Policy & Environment (2015)
Editorial Assistant for Environmental Philosophy, 20132014
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Co-Founder and Co-Director, UO Human/Animal Research Interest Group, 2012Present
Role involves facilitating regular work-in-progress talks, coordinating an invited
speaker series, and hosting events open to the campus community and the public
President, Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, AFT 3544, 20132014
Graduate Studies Committee, Philosophy, University of Oregon, 20122013
LANGUAGES
German: fluent in reading, writing, and speaking
French: basic reading
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Philosophical Association

North American Kant Society

International Association for Environmental Philosophy
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
REFERENCES
Ted Toadvine
Professor of Philosophy
& Environmental Studies
University of Oregon
toadvine@uoregon.edu

Nicolae Morar
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
& Environmental Studies
University of Oregon
nmorar@uoregon.edu

Roco Zambrana
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Oregon
zambrana@uoregon.edu

Dilek Huseyinzadegan
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Emory University
dhuseyin1@emory.edu

Robert Metcalf
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Colorado, Denver
robert.metcalf@ucdenver.edu